There still time for a Hunchback of Notre Dame costume! But you don’t need to limit yourself to the characters from the book or the films. You can create a costume that is inspired from the book. This is a list of 5 Hunchback-ish costumes you can create fairly quickly and be creative with.
1. Quasimofo – Obviously a joke-ish costume but you can make the hunchback in to one badass. I would recommend wearing a suit with shades and getting some kind of hunch like a pillow. And maybe a toy gun 
2. Pope or King of Fools – This doesn’t have to be Quasimodo all you would need is to make-up your face to be ugly. The from there get a jester crown
3. A Bell – there is no Hunchback version that doesn’t have bells in it. You can wear all yellow maybe get some yellow bell-bottoms
4. A Gargoyle – Gargoyles are a major part of Notre Dame’s charm and Quasimodo in a lot of ways in liken to one. It’s a great costume idea as recognizable and not often done. You can have a lot fun with one. You can get a Gargoyle make-up Kit
5. An Executioner – executioners play a huge part in the book, Quasimodo is whipped and Esmeralda meets her end by one. So why not put the fear in the massive with it as a costume. Wear all black with a hooded mask and carry either an axe
Goya painting titled “Two Old Men Eating Soup”
This is a painting by Francisco Goya. It’s called “Two Old Men Eating Soup.” It’s one of Goya’s “Black Paintings” which is a series of paintings Goya painted between 1819 and 1823 while he lived at Quinta del Sordo (The House of the Deaf Man). It was originally painted on an interior wall of the house.
It’s a very unsettling painting but doesn’t it kind of remind you of Frollo and Quasimodo. Like Frollo is teaching Quasimodo about soup. I doubt that this painting and novel have any connection to each other, it’s just that figure on the right looks like it could be a dead-ringer for Quasimodo and with a second old man that means Frollo.
It’s a creepy painting isn’t it?
The Hunchback of Nowhere
Eustace falling off the barn, Courage the Cowardly Dog, The Hunchback of Nowhere
The bigs one are handbells and the trapezes. Both are clever tweaks on the massive Cathedral bells and Quasimodo’s acrobatics. Though why are there trapezes in the Bagge’s barn, I have no idea. Another big one is at the climax of the episode, Eustace falls from the roof. This is a clear reference to Frollo falling from Notre Dame. So it would seem that the barn is playing Notre Dame in this episode.
Courage, Quasimodo & the handbells, Courage the Cowardly Dog, The Hunchback of Nowhere
The theory is made evident by a rose window in the barn. You can see it when Quasimodo is playing the bells when Courage finds him in the barn.
Quasimodo, Courage the Cowardly Dog, The Hunchback of Nowhere
Then there is Quasimodo uttering the line “Out there.” This is defiantly a reference to the Disney movie where Quasimodo sings a song called “Out There” in which he hopes for a day in the normal world. In the episode Quasimodo says the line with hope and optimism.
Swinging Quasimodo, Courage the Cowardly Dog, The Hunchback of Nowhere
The references are clear, playful and do not bog down the episode. They feel fairly natural within the brief time constraints of the episode though I confess the trapeze while cute is a bit of a stretch.
Next Time; Conclusion
Quasimodo reading an insult, Courage the Cowardly Dog, The Hunchback of Nowhere
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Ghoulish Esmeralda
Isn’t she Ghoulish?
Fleur de Lys is Phoebus’ Fiancee. She is a noble lady and is often overlook by more than a few film versions but done right she can be an interesting and very complex. Fleur-de-Lys is less iconic of a costume than Esmeralda’s as a Renaisaance lady is kind a dime a dozen. But if you want to feel like Fleur-de-Lys there are a few options. Remember unless you’re going custom nothing will look 100% to 1480’s style.
You go either rich colors like reds or go for blues. A few film Fleur-de Lys wear blue. Just remember you’re a rich lady who is the only character to really get a happy ending in the novel.
Costume Culture by Franco LLC Womens Medieval Blue Princess Halloween Costume
Costume Culture by Franco LLC Womens Medieval Blue Princess Halloween Costume
This one is one of the few blue on I could find.
Charades Womens Camelot Renaissance Dress Halloween Costume
Charades Womens Camelot Renaissance Dress Halloween Costume
I like this color options for Fleur-de-Lys, a dark rich pick which seems to fit her personality very well.
Renaissance Maiden Adult Costume
Renaissance Maiden Adult Costume
The sleeves are very much like sleeves people would have worn in the late medieval period. This costume is very rich looking.
Rubie’s Costume Deluxe Milady Of The Castle Renaissance Dress
Rubie’s Costume Deluxe Milady Of The Castle Renaissance Dress
This costume has a neckline detail that is very similar to what was fashionable in the 1480’s. Also the fur trim on the cuff is a detail that was on the 1956 Fleur-de-Lys costume.
Adult Maiden Of Verona Costume
Adult Maiden Of Verona Costume
The neckline and waist are very much like the fashion of the 1480’s plus the color, the darkish almost pink color is great for Fleur-de-Lys.
InCharacter Costumes, LLC Maid Marian Dress
InCharacter Costumes, LLC Maid Marian Dress
This costume has both red and blue. The sleeves are very pretty and feminine. Even though this is a very pretty costume there something dark about it which makes it a good choice for Fleur-de-Lys
Seeing how it is the month of Halloween when frights and terrors rule the land, let’s imagine a truly terrifying casting option for Esmeralda.
In my mind, the idea of Miley Cyrus playing Esmeralda is cringe inducing.
Miley Cyrus
Cyrus isn’t an actress. She fits more into celebrity end of fame. She says one thing on twitter and it’s everywhere. She shocks, so that people will talk about her.
But let’s discuss her as actress as that is what she started out as I guess and that is the point of this post. To put it bluntly, she can’t act. I have seen her in the Hannah movie, Bolt and 30 grueling minutes of Last Song. Cyrus can only act like herself; a self-indulgent women-children who thinks having fun is partying and being overtly vulgar.
The idea of her playing any character from literature is bone-chilling. She can not play characters that have any complexity or depth. Even Esmeralda in the novel is too complex for her acting skills.
If she were to play Esmeralda can you imagine the dance scene *shudders*. And then the rest of it would be hackneyed and hammy. Of course, Cyrus doesn’t seem to be concerned with acting these days but the threat looms, like Slenderman lurking in a deep dark forest.
If however she ever got it in her head to play Esmeralda she has means to do it. Let that thought steep into your mind and then stop your heart in the small-hours of the night when hell opens upon you.
The Hunchback, a.k.a Quasimodo, in the Courage the Cowardly Dog episode The Hunchback of Nowhere
Quasimodo, Courage the Cowardly Dog, The Hunchback of Nowhere
In the Disney vein, he has red hair and wears green. He doesn’t have a wart protrusion over his eye instead his eye bulges out from the socket and curves upwards which is very cartoony. His other eye is big and purple. He has greenish skin, a huge nose and for some reason he has a scar. He is also rather lumpy which makes the hunch looks unified with the rest of his form.
Eustace rejecting Quasimodo, Courage the Cowardly Dog, The Hunchback of Nowhere
Unlike every other single version of the hunchback, this is one is not haunting Notre Dame, instead he is looking for shelter. Not even companionship he just wants a place to spend the night not outside. Got to wonder why he’s not at Notre Dame?
Quasimodo plays handbells, Courage the Cowardly Dog, The Hunchback of Nowhere
But does the absence of Notre Dame makes this depiction not Quasimodo? No, even though he is never refereed to as Quasimodo and there is no Notre Dame as a signifier there are other things that signify him as Quasimodo. First, being kind hunchback is enough but the show does other things like he plays bells. A Kind Hunchback who plays bells, that pretty much says Quasimodo. He also swings on a trapeze in barn for some reason. So we have a kind hunchback that plays bells and swings on ropes, if that doesn’t “Hello, I’m Quasimodo” I don’t really know what would.
Quasimodo, Courage the Cowardly Dog, The Hunchback of Nowhere
For a ten minute runtime he also a dynamic character. He goes from being quiet and letting people, mainly Eustace, make him feel bad to standing up to Eustace on Courages’ behalf.
Quasimodo reading an insult, Courage the Cowardly Dog, The Hunchback of Nowhere
Frankly, it’s a short and sweet version of Quasimodo. I like that this Quasimodo isn’t hung up on finding love or even lasting acceptances and friends. The popping eye, green skin and scar are weird stylistic choices to his design but they are not awful or distracting.
Next Time – Nods to the original Source
Eustace falling off the barn, Courage the Cowardly Dog, The Hunchback of Nowhere
This is from the Concept Concert the original, original cast (note Noa) performed in February 1998, 8 months before the show. This was the first time Belle was performed in Public.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j5cPdClV6c
Alessandra Ferrari as Esmeralda, World Tour Notre Dame de Paris Crocus City
In addition to the performances in Moscow and Singapore two more cities have been added. And Rejoice, they are moving off the Asian Continent.
They will be in Luxembourg at Rockhal, March 24 2014 to the 31st and in Istanbul at Zorlu, April 20th 2014 to May 5th.
I’m going to go on the offense and say that this will be the same English cast. Let’s hope there are more performance.
And if any of you go, Please get me a spare program ^^